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Journal pilbender's Journal: Friends and Foes

Friends are not necessarily people that I endorse. Foes are not necessarily people I don't like.

I add to my friends list when I see someone post something meaningful so I can easily pick them out the next time I come across that user. I expect consistency in quality comments. When someone posts something I can't swallow, I remove them from my friends list or add that user to my Foe list.

I add to my foe list when I want to flag a user who posts something trollish, extremist, flamish, stupid, or maybe just someone I want to keep track of because I don't like the viewpoint or the way the viewpoint was communicated. I remove people from my foe list when I see they have things to say that are useful. Maybe they simply had a bad post and I need to reconsider, so I do.

Friends and Foes are a way for me to track people with similar philosophies or academically valid arguments. My lists are not a way to gauge whether those individuals are good or bad, left wing or right wing, smart or dumb, etc.

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